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Saturday, 16 January 2016

Stone Ram

**

2 Stars/5

Thanks to T A Uner for giving me this book to review.

When the holy artefact, the Golden Mane, is stolen from the
kingdom of Rek, blind shepherd boy Fabian SilverSword goes on the gold quest to
revive it from the Blood Reaper. Along with his new allies, Lager, an exiled Starfighter
from Earth, Marella, a mysterious stealer from Pazland and Matilda, his loyal
dog. Fabian and the others must navigate
the dangerous lawless domain of the Darklands and unknown dangers of the
Hellion Doors, but will they be able to complete their quest.

The Stone Ram is an OK YA adventure novel, with a mixture of
sci-fi and fantasy. It is not the fasted paced book and had a bit too much info
dumping. However, I did remind me a bit of the Fable video games, especially with
the Hellion Doors.

I did not like Fabian, as he was meant to be the stereotypical
farm boy who turns into a hero, but he was too much wanting to be a hero, no
matter what it costs others. Also I was confused with him, as even when Fabian
was not able to see, it came across that he could. I liked Marella as she was
street wise, courageous and quick. Lager is a drunkard from earth who is wise
and wants to help Fabian.

I am guessing that is you have read the other books in this
series the ending probably makes sense, but if you are reading this book as a
standalone, the ending was very confusing and comes out of nowhere. I would
recommend The Stone Ram to fans of the Leopard King Saga.